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met with u.s. officials several times. >> brennan: and we're in mexico as the country's crackdown on migrants begins. president trump has a secret deal with the mexican government. >> that's the agreement that everybody says i don't have. >> brennan: good evening. i'm margaret brennan. this is our western edition. jon stewart is famous for political punch lines, but today the former late night comedian delivered a serious message to congress. stewart blasted lawmakers for failing to extend healthcare funding for 9/11 first responders. many firefighters and police officers who worked at ground zero after the september 11th attacks have been stricken with cancer and other illnesses. those who joined stewart on capitol hill gave him a standing ovation. nancy cordes is there. >> you are ignoring them. >> reporter: in a hearing room packed with first responders, stewart berated the lawmakers before him.

>> your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity -- time. >> reporter: the september 11th victim compensation fund has helped tens of thousands of people who inhaled deadly toxins at ground zero. former n.y.p.d. detective luis alvarez will undergo his 69th round of chemotherapy tomorrow. >> this fund is not a ticket to paradise. it is there to provide for our familieshe't >> reporter: but the $7.4 billion congress approved in 2015 has nearly run out, forcing the fund's administrator to slash payouts. >> this should be flipped. this hearing should be flipped. these men and women should be up on that stage, and congress should be down here answering their questions as to why this is so damn hard and takes so

damn long. >> reporter: congress has balked at the price tag before. >> right now we have a $22 trillion federal debt. >> reporter: but the former "daily show" host and long-time advocate argued ailing heroes shouldn't be left in limbo. >> the official f.d.n.y. response time to 9/11 was five seconds. five seconds. they did their jobs with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. 18 years later, do yours! >> reporter: there is bipartisan support for renewing these funds. this afternoon when i asked senate leader mitch mcconnell if he backs the move, he said he does. that's an encouraging sign, margaret, from someone who has held up similar funds in the past. >> brennan: after a very powerful call to action. nancy cordes, thank you. today the president and the

democratic front-runner vying for his job traded insults in dueling visits to iowa. this as a new quinnipiac university poll gives joe biden a 13-point lead nationally over president trump. ed o'keefe reports the trump campaign has a reason to be worried. >> i believe that trump poses a fundamental threat to america. >> i'd rather run against, i think, biden than anybody. i think he's the weakest mentally. >> given the way former >> reporter: given the way former vice president joe biden and president donald trump targeted each other today, you'd be forgiven if you thought the election was next week. >> sleepy joe. he was someplace in iowa today, and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it anymore. >> only i can fix it. fix yourself first, donald trump! >> but there are >> reporter: but there are 237 days until the iowa caucuses and 511 days until election day 2020. one reason for the early action,

cbs news has learned that internal trump campaign polling shows biden leading the president in several key states mr. trump will need to keep the white house, including florida, north carolina, and arizona. but mr. trump's campaign believes biden's record on trade and his previous support of nafta are weaknesses the president can exploit. >> joe biden thought that china was not a competitor of ours. joe biden is a dummy. >> iowa farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with china. >> reporter: among iowa democrats, biden remains the favorite. today the former vice president dismissed the early surveys. >> i see all these polls. they don't mean a thing right now. this is a marathon. >> reporter: that iowa poll also showed that roughly three in four voters here want many of those running to be the democratic nominee, now numbering 24, to drop out. the president is concluding his stay here at an iowa g.o.p. fundraiser just outside des moines. aside from joe biden, the trump campaign is also keeping its eye

on massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. one senior campaign official described her as authentic and the real deal. margaret? >> brennan: ed o'keefe on the campaign trail. well, cbs news has learned the pilot killed in a helicopter crash in new york city yesterday should not have been flying in stormy conditions. f.a.a. records show timothy mccormack was not certified to fly solely guided by instruments. here's don dahler. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board was on the roof of the 54-story building today, but there is not much of the 19-year-old chopper left. >> the wreckage is confined to the rooftop. it is highly fragmented, and a post-crash fire consumed much of the wreckage. >> reporter: the questions yet mccormack took off from the 34th street heliport in poor weather conditions without being certified to do so, why he flew into air space over the city that has been restricted since donald trump became a

presidential candidate, and did he decide to attempt a rooftop landing rather than put the thousands of people on the streets below at risk? his brother michael believes he did. "tim put other people's lives first," he said in a statement. "by putting the helicopter on the roof of a building, which took great skill, it is a true act of heroism." the how and why of this accident will be a challenge to discover. helicopters typically don't have black boxes, and the n.t.s.b. is trying to determine if the pilot said anything over the radio before the crash. margaret? >> brennan: don dahler, thank you. a new theory has emerged as to why kim jong-un's half-brother was murdered in a malaysian airport. here's david martin. >> reporter: the 2017 assassination of kim jong nam, the older half brother of north korea's leader kim jong-un, was recorded by security cameras. two women came up behind him, one at a time, and rubbed

chemicals over his face which combined to make the deadly nerve agent v.x. at the time it was assumed north korea's ruthless leader had simply eliminated a potential rival, but now the plot surrounding kim jong nam has thickened. >> he seemed to be short on money in his final years, so he had been supplying information about north korea to the c.i.a. >> reporter: "washington post" beijing bureau chief anna fifield has written a new book about kim jong-un. in it, she suggests that kim jong nam, who spent most of his life living in exile outside north korea, might actually have been returning from a meeting with his c.i.a. handler when he was killed. >> on the day he was killed, he was found with $120,000 in cash in his little backpack. that may have been as a payment for his services. >> reporter: cbs news could not independently confirm fifield's reporting and the c.i.a. has no

comment, so the bizarre life and death of kim jong nam is likely to remain one of the many mysteries surrounding north korea. margaret? >> brennan: indeed. david martin at the pentagon. at the white house today, president trump showed reporters a piece of paper that he claims is a secret agreement with mexico to stop central american migrants heading to the u.s. the mexicans say they have already begun a crackdown. manuel bojorquez is on mexico's southern border. >> reporter: immigration agents in southern mexico seemed eager to prove they're cracking down on central american immigrants. they appear to be pulling what looks like a family, their children, as well, off of this one van. they've been checking people's documents. they pull them out of the car and take them into custody. >> reporter: it's a push to show the country will make good on a deal to avoid u.s. tariffs. today mexico's foreign minister repeated plans to send 6,000

members of a newly formed national guard to areas known to be migrant routes, an effort to stem the flow of asylum seekers to the u.s., though mexico has in some ways already been doing that, deporting more central american migrants in the last seven years than the u.s. many of them come through here, the suchiate river, which separates mexico and guatemala. this is every day along the suchiate river. people bring food and drinks, even furniture, trying to get it to the other side to sell. when migrants try to cross here, they do the same thing, they will charge about $1 per person on these rafts to ride. the real question is how will the government prevent those migrants from coming across this porous border. the town's mayor, sonia hernandez, welcomes the national guard. just the word that the national guard was coming has had an impact? "yes," she says. "i think it had diminished the people coming." but just across the river in guatemala, we found anselma and her four grandchildren looking for shelter.

they say they're fleeing poverty and violence in honduras. the u.s. still their destination, regardless of mexico's plan. "i will continue to the point that god gives me the strength," she says. "i will not stop. i left my country with that mentality." so far we have yet to see mexican national guard troops here. mexico has 45 days to prove its plan will work or go back to the negotiating table. this afternoon, u.s. customs and border protection announced it is sending an advisory team to guatemala. alrgaret? >> brennan: manny, thank you. david ortiz has taken his first steps since he was shot in the back sunday night in the dominican republic. a spokesman for the baseball superstar says ortiz remains in intensive care. ortiz had a second operation last night after being flown to boston. one suspect is in custody. investigators are looking for at least one other. leaders for the southern baptist convention are gathered in alabama this week, addressing a

sex abuse crisis in their church, the nation's largest protestant denomination. mireya villarreal is in birmingham. >> reporter: brooks hansen and kenny stubblefield were just 15 years old when the two best friends were sexually abused by their youth pastor. >> he forced me to sleep in the bed with him. and i woke up with his hands down my pants. >> reporter: they mustered up the courage to report the assaults to their church pastor, who assured them he would handle the situation. your pastor told you not to say anything. >> for me to be a faithful christian we should be quiet. >> not to talk to anybody, that they would handle it. and they didn't. >> reporter: a recent investigation by the "san antonio-express news" and the "houston chronicle" found near 700 people had been sexually assaulted by nearly 400 church leaders and church volunteers over the past 20 years. >> yes, it can happen to your church. >> reporter: responding to

growing complaints of inaction, officials at the annual convention are trying to address the issue. j.d. gruyere is president of the southern baptist convention. >> the vast majority of southern baptist pastors are not uncaring, but they are complacent because they are asleep at the wheel. >> reporter: russell moore heads the ethics commission which has issued new recommendations to protect sexual assault victims. >> one of the things that will be talked about at this convention is how to hold one another accountable. we're autonomous churches, but autonomy doesn't mean or shouldn't mean a lack of accountability. >> reporter: the vote that is set to happen tonight would allow the southern baptist church as a whole organization to expel any smaller churches that don't properly respond to sexual abuse allegations or tries to cover them up. but here is the caveat: in order for there to be actual change, there has to be a second vote at next year's convention. >> brennan: mireya villarreal, thank you. next on the "cbs evening news," the prosecutor from the "central park five" case says a netflix

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morning." >> i'm hearing korey being physically beaten in the next room. >> reporter: a judge threw out the convictions in 2002, relying on d.n.a. evidence and a new confession from another man, but not until after the so-called central park five spent six to 13 years in prison. fairstein denies the confessions were coerced and said there was certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on several other victims that night. >> ms. fairstein continues to miss the big picture points. >> reporter: attorney barry scheck helped start "the innocence project," which represents defendants wrongfully convicted. what is the lesson learned here? >> we have to change these interrogation techniques, because there is too much coercive interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein, now a best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is no longer serving on several boards, all since the premier of

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